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Piping Plover Update Week 3

Whitefish Point Vie has laid her fourth egg, meaning incubation has begun! In around 26 days tiny Piping Plover chicks will be running around at the Point. In the meantime Vie and Little Bill Bob will be taking turns sitting on the eggs while the embryos develop inside. Hot Shot is still moseying around [...]

2025-05-30T14:02:46-04:00May 29th, 2025|Field Notes, Piping Plover|Comments Off on Piping Plover Update Week 3

Piping Plover Update Week 2

Whitefish Point PIPL X,B:-,O Male from Vermilion Point. Photo by Stephanie Owens PIPL Little Bill Bob performing a broken-wing display. Photo by Stephanie Owens Little Bill Bob and Vie had been taking the past week slow, and I don’t blame them. It must be hard work growing eggs and deciding [...]

2025-05-22T16:10:40-04:00May 22nd, 2025|Field Notes, Piping Plover|Comments Off on Piping Plover Update Week 2

Piping Plover Update Week 1

Things are shaping up to be another successful Piping Plover breeding season at Whitefish Point. The plovers have been arriving at the Point since April 27, and our pair from last year have found each other again. Just a refresher, that pair is Of,bL:X,B/O/B (Male, aka Little Bill Bob) and X,V:Of,YY (Female, aka Violet [...]

2025-05-15T19:20:41-04:00May 15th, 2025|Field Notes, Piping Plover|Comments Off on Piping Plover Update Week 1

Plover Update July 22

Since my last blog post, the fourth and final Piping Plover nest has hatched. Unfortunately, only one of the three eggs hatched. The two unhatched eggs were turned over to the Great Lakes Piping Plover Conservation Team and determined to have not developed. Also, since my last blog post, 10 of the 11 chicks on [...]

2022-07-22T17:03:42-04:00July 22nd, 2022|Field Notes|Comments Off on Plover Update July 22

Midway

Piping Plover with spread wings. Photo by Alec Olivier It's hard to believe, but we're almost halfway through the 2022 Piping Plover season. There isn't much new to report since my last blog, which opposed to migration counting is a good thing. All four active nests are being incubated by their parents [...]

2022-08-12T09:33:27-04:00June 24th, 2022|Field Notes|Comments Off on Midway

Plover Season Begins

Really Tricky. Photo by Alec Olivier Greetings Piping Plover lovers! This summer's Piping Plover field season has started very successfully! As it stands, we are currently at four active Piping Plover nests! This ties the record of four, which was set in 2013. This year, almost all of the nesting adults were also [...]

2022-08-12T09:36:25-04:00June 9th, 2022|Field Notes|Comments Off on Plover Season Begins
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